Welcome to The Squid Gallery

The Squid Gallery is the source for customized training on Adobe Systems' graphics and publishing products.

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Muse

Do you need to learn these popular and widely used professional applications?

I conduct customized training and provide complete course ware (PDF handouts and lesson files) on these Adobe programs, so you can get up to speed quickly on them.

Photoshop Training Topics include:

Create a custom workspace and use Bridge's filtering and automation capabilities to import your photographs and organize them. Use menu customization and custom keyboard shortcuts to simplify using the program. Control both the size and resolution of your images and change their composition for both printed and web output. Fix perspective with the new lens correction filter and perspective crop tool and straighten a crooked image.

Learn which selection tool does the best job in different circumstances to make accurate and efficient selections of photographs. Use layers to composite (collage) different elements so that they can be moved and scaled independently. Add type and use styles (drop shadows, bevels) to enhance the appearance.

Use color adjustments to improve the overall appearance of any image and masks to fix localized areas. Salvage images where exposure went wrong. Use color correction creatively for highly stylized photos. Learn to use Photoshop's retouching tools to fix flaws in images and do portrait/beauty retouching.

Develop images with the Camera RAW interface - color balancing, sharpening, sensor dust removal, graduated filter, local adjustments, cropping, split toning, vignetting and other effects to make images look fantastic. Also learn how to process multiple images with the same exposure, save develop presets and save different versions (color, crop, etc.) within the RAW file. Take RAW images into Photoshop for further processing or output for print. Combining multiple exposures for High Dynamic Range (HDR).

Use layers, masks, blending modes, tools and filters to combine different images. record Photoshop Actions to automate repetitive tasks. Using color profiles & sharpening images with Actions and Bridge to manage images to process with Actions. Learn to right techniques to capture images that will stitch together well and use Photomerge to create full panoramas from multiple photographs.

Understand the benefits of Photoshop Smart Objects and how Layer Comps can be used to manage various versions of a file.

​Download a PDF of the Photoshop class training topics.

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Illustrator Training Topics include:

Draw with the object and pen tools, manipulate and transform objects, and work with type, including type on a path, vertical type and converting type to outlines.

Use layers to organize and manage your designs.

Work with color, gradients, patterns and color libraries. Create and edit gradients and apply color with gradient mesh.

Creating web sites without ANY coding and completely visually with Adobe Muse, the way one would in a page layout program.

The class includes some information on how using Adobe Illustrator to create a Site Map and mock -up the web page layouts can be an excellent tool for getting your design and structure planned out effectively before creating the web site itself. Also, using Photoshop to automate the process of resizing images for the web. Once all the assets are ready, you can use Adobe Muse to create an entire web site and deploy it either through Adobe's Business Catalyst service or your own hosting service.